Some companies want to bring in committers quite quickly... for some member companies, the bar for being nominated is pretty low whereas for contributors not on an existing committing company the bar is much higher

Martin thinks that personal conversation with contributors is necessary asking people to become a committer

People who want to bring a project hosted elsewhere over to Eclipse want to know the implications of moving over

Have a Foundation document as the overall guiding principle ... and recommend projects to set up their own guidelines

Some documentation exists already... Wayne working on a new committer handbook

Wayne: all projects have their own bar for coming in... criteria for initial committers on project creation is different than bringing in committers later on

On DSDP PMC, we agreed to require a public record of 3 contributions at least ... in order for the PMC to be able and make a decision

PMC has the final word on making the decision

Wayne: difficult to quantify contributions. It's important to have some justification, and to have it public.

AI Dave C work with Wayne on a handbook ... with reference to the committer guidelines

Mike wants to make it clear that committers and contribution are welcome